Brian Eno Quotes

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

If you're having fun, you wind up innovating.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

Working with someone who's really passionate about it is great, because you become passionate, and then it's fun; it's not work anymore.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.

I found it was way more fun to build useless stuff.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

If there's room to make a record every year, and it sounds nothing like the old one, I might do that. It's easy to get in and have fun. To me, if it feels right, that's all that needs to be done.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

Play so that you may be serious.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.